D'Eriq King now SMU QB Coach

[CaneInMD]

Great to see. Always seemed like an awesome dude

 

[Rellyrell]

Think many of us said this was in his future. Same w/ C Flagg.

 

[NC_Canes_11]

Awesome. I think Lashlee is a very capable up and coming coach.

I had my doubts, and was worried he would take the Lincoln Riley route after year 1. Then I saw the defense he fielded this year and that thought went away immediately. He will be in line for a major P5 job if he can repeat what he did this year.

 

[305407cane]

King was all class in what was clearly a strange time in our programs history. Injuries and such. Always was a class act. A stabling force for us

 

[UMFarArcher]

Awesome!

HE was awesome - in every phase of his life!

 

[Angry Ibis]

Awesome for him. He'll climb the ladder quickly.

Also, Rhett made a **** of an impression in his 2 years here. Everyone on both sides of the ball wanted to follow him. Coaches, players, support staff, etc.

Lashlee and his family seem like great people. He has done a really good job there at SMU so far. Good for him and happy for King.

 

[nvlahos]

That’s great

Congrats to him and really rooting for Lashlee too

 

[Cylo]

That’s great

Congrats to him and really rooting for Lashlee too

+1

 

[Torch_Da1]

So glad to see this young man earn this. Can't wait to see his rise up the ranks.

 

[Cribby]

Not surprising

 

[jjacks93]

you love to see it

 

[TallyCane]

Very cool.

 

[Southbeach44]

 

[grover]

Happy for King. Young man earned his spot. ...

Off Topic, but Lashlee needs to up his talent level significantly to compete in the ACC week in week out. Will be interesting to watch how he handles recruiting with the big boys. I never saw him as a good recruiter. SMU has bigtime donors so he will have more money to work with than the BCs and GTs of the conference. But he needs more than that to go head to head with Mario and Dabo... or even Brown, Doerren and Norvell.

 

[canes_aaron]

Lashlee and King made Canes football fun to watch during the pandemic year when there was a point where there were talks of cancelling the season at one point.

Wish both guys success except when they play us of course.

 

[Tad Footeball]

I expect nothing less than the warmest of welcomes from SMU fans when we roll into Dallas in 2025 as Lashlee has realllllly incorporated a tonnnn of elements of his brief stay here into his head coaching tenure there.

He seemed like a good dude (and King definitely was) so I wish them the absolute best....unless it affects us in any way.

All we need now is for Alfred James Golden Jr. to get another ACC head corching job to complete the conference gauntlet of possibly facing Lashlee then Diaz the Golden in the same season.

 

[We'retheBoss]

All we need now is for Alfred James Golden Jr. to get another ACC head corching job to complete the conference gauntlet of possibly facing Lashlee then Diaz the Golden in the same season.

And we know what type of gauntlet that would be

 

[mcnaire2004]

Very happy for him.

How hilarious would that have been for him to be TVDs coach. Awkward.

 

[Hoyacane1620]

Very happy for him.

How hilarious would that have been for him to be TVDs coach. Awkward.

not really. He was his mentor that first season TVD played due to his injury

 

[Peruche]

I couldn't be happier for the kid!!

Signed,

Peruche